For 34 years, Toronto's York University shut down on Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. The University of Windsor Law School also closed for these Jewish holidays. This practice has come to a halt in both institutions. At York, Professor David Noble ...
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Please register to gain free access to WSJ tools. An account already exists for the email address entered. eHarmony, Inc., which runs an online dating service for heterosexual couples, must now cater to a gay clientele. That is the upshot of a ...
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Nov 19th, 2008 | HERODIUM, West Bank -- Israeli archaeologists excavating what they believe is the tomb of biblical King Herod said Wednesday they have unearthed lavish Roman-style wall paintings of a kind previously unseen in the Middle East and ...
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Nov 19th, 2008 | HERODIUM, West Bank -- King Herod may have been buried in a crypt with lavish Roman-style wall paintings of a kind previously unseen in the Middle East, Israeli archaeologists said Wednesday. The scientists found such paintings and ...
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The home funeral may be the ultimate expression of a green burial. About an hour after Rima Synnestvedt's father died in his bed, surrounded by his family, his three daughters and others bathed him with flower-scented water and dressed him in his ...
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Atlanta hip-hop king T.I. vaults 70 places into the No. 1 spot on Billboard 's Hot 100 this week with "Whatever You Like," a sing-songy, smudgy Xerox of his classic 2006 hit "What You Know." With this move, Clifford Joseph Harris Jr. scores his first ...
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Wasn't dear old Maggie Thatcher the european Obama? After all, she was (rumour has it) a women, and the first and only female leader in the West until Angela Merkel. Sarkozy is the son of a Hungarian immigrant, has an Italian second wife and had a ...
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